Subfamily: Cerapachyinae
Author: P.S.Ward , Revised: 9/28/2002Taxonomic Hierarchy:
Subfamily: Cerapachyinae
Identification:
Workers of Cerapachyinae can be identified by the structure of the pygidium (the last visible dorsal segment of the abdomen): it is flattened and armed with a pair of distally converging rows of teeth or spines. In addition, the frontal carinae are usually reduced and the antennal sockets are at least partly exposed; the pronotum is fused immovably to the mesonotum (with one exception); the propodeal spiracle is small, circular and located low on the side of the propodeum; and abdominal spiracles 5-7 are visible under normal distension of the segments.Notes:
This subfamily is represented by a single rare species in California. Cerapachyine ants are specialized predators of other ants and are most prevalent in the Old World tropics.Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2010)
Cerapachysii Forel, 1893a: 162. Type-genus: Cerapachys.
Taxonomic history
Cerapachyinae as family: Bernard, 1951: 1046 [Cerapachyidae]; Bernard, 1953b: 215 [Cerapachyidae].
Cerapachyinae as junior synonym of Ponerinae: Brown, 1975: 14; Snelling, 1981: 387; H?lldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10.
Cerapachyinae as group of Dorylinae: Emery, 1901a: 36 [Cerapachinae].
Cerapachyinae as subfamily of Formicidae: Wheeler, W.M. 1902d: 185; Wheeler, W.M. 1920: 53; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 51, 632; Donisthorpe, 1922: xlv; Borgmeier, 1923: 50; Clark, 1924b: 76; Clark, 1934c: 49; Donisthorpe, 1943f: 620; Creighton, 1950a: 56; Clark, 1951: 15 (in key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 17; Smith, M.R. 1951a: 781; Brown, 1954e: 26; Kusnezov, 1956: 11; Kusnezov, 1964: 48; Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1972a: 37; Kempf, 1972a: 263; Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1976b: 46; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1333; Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1985: 256; Ogata, 1987: 127; Bolton, 1990a: 66; Bolton, 1990c: 1356; Baroni Urbani, Bolton & Ward, 1992: 316; Jaffe, 1993: 9; Bolton, 1994: 18; Wu, J. & Wang, 1995: 47.
Cerapachyinae as dorylomorph subfamily of Formicidae: Bolton, 2003: 32, 137; Brady & Ward, 2005: 593.
Cerapachyinae as formicoid subfamily of Formicidae: Moreau, Bell, et al. 2006: 102.
Cerapachyinae as formicoid dorylomorph subfamily of Formicidae: Brady, Schultz, et al. 2006: 18173; Ward, 2007a: 555.
Tribes of Cerapachyinae: Acanthostichini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini.
Subfamily Cerapachyinae references
Emery, 1895j: 765 (diagnosis); Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 136 (diagnosis); Emery, 1911d: 5 (tribes key); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 51, 636 (diagnosis, tribes key); Morley, 1939: 114 (phylogeny); Smith, M.R. 1947f: 528 (U.S.A. diagnosis, genera); Brown, 1954e: 26 (phylogeny, notes); Eisner, 1957: 476 (proventriculus morphology); Gotwald, 1969: 43 (mouthparts morphology); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1972a: 37 (diagnosis); Kempf, 1972a: 263 (Neotropical, synoptic classification); Brown, 1975: 11 (revision of tribes and genera, diagnoses); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1976b: 46 (larvae, review & synthesis); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1985: 261 (diagnosis); Ogata, 1987: 129 (Japan genera); Bolton, 1990a: 53 (abdominal morphology, diagnosis, synoptic classification, zoogeography); Bolton, 1990c: 1356 (diagnosis, morphology, phylogeny); Brand?o, 1991: 390 (Neotropical fauna, synoptic classification, genera); Baroni Urbani, Bolton & Ward, 1992: 316 (phylogeny); Jaffe, 1993: 7 (Neotropical genera, synoptic classification); Lattke, in Jaffe, 1993: 165 (Neotropical genera); Bolton, 1994: 18 (diagnosis, synoptic classification, key to genera); Bolton, 1995a: 1038 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 10 (catalogue); H?lldobler, Obermayer & Peeters, 1996: 158 (metatibial gland); PerfilÕeva, 2002: 1239 (venation); Palacio & Fern?ndez, in Fern?ndez, 2003d: 238 (Neotropical genera keys); Brady, 2003: 6575 (phylogeny); Bolton, 2003: 32, 137 (diagnosis, synopsis); Brady & Ward, 2005: 593 (phylogeny); Moreau, Bell, et al. 2006: 102 (phylogeny); Brady, Schultz, et al. 2006: 18173 (phylogeny); Ward, 2007a: 555 (classification).
References:
Bolton (1990a, 1990e, 1994); Brown (1975); Ogata (1987a).1 Genera Imaged | View All 1 Genera for this subfamily
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